subtitles are loaded from the current working directory

[bug-report@…]

I've experienced this on Windows where, a common behaviour starting a movie is Right click -> Open with... > MPlayer.

Under these conditions, even if sub-fuzziness is set to 2 (well, I know it isn't related directly), the subtitles are not loaded automatically because Windows starts MPlayer with another working directory that the parent directory of the movie.

Example:

MPlayer Path: C:\Program Files\MPlayer\MPlayer.exe
Movie Path: C:\Movie\m.avi , subtitle C:\Movie\m.sub

If I choose Open With (or make this option permanent with "Always use this application") the working directory of the application would be C:\Program Files\MPlayer and that would be the location where to look for subtitles.

I believe the default behaviour should be: look for subtitles in the path of the movie, no matter what working directory there is.

This most likely applies to other platforms as well besides Windows.

[compn]

thats odd...
movie path: d:\movies
sub path d:\movies
mplayer path d:\cdrive\mplayer\mplayer.exe

right click > open with > mplayer ... still loads the subtitles from movie dir for me.

likewise just double clicking a file, when mplayer is set to open the filetype.

are you using the gui ? from mplayerhq.hu?

can you paste the mplayer -v -frames 1 console output ?

[compn]

worksforme.